Bonus Activity: A Roman Diary Entry

23/4/45
Dear Diary:
Today we continued building the roads, and I think we built a lot of them. as usual, we first used the Groma, to made our roads straight, and then we had to do the part, that I always hate, we dug the ditches to avoid the rain water. That part of the work is always hard, speacialy today, cause the sun was doing our work to long. But we finished that, and we started to put the stones of the surface of the road. irs funny to me do that cause we have to made the surface of the road shaped into a camber so the rain water can run off into the ditches, and I like to do that. i simple words, it was a normal day...

                   How to play the "Octopus Dare" game !?

Task 2:

Write a set of instructions to teach other kids how  to play The Octopus Game. (150 words)

a. Describe the setting of the game

b. Explain its purpose.

First, you have to know, that is a game, that only a genius can win, a game that transport you to a treasure hunt (purpose), on the high seas, were more that one, monster can ruin your trip...like a octopus...(setting)

Instruccions:

1.-Press any key, for enter, and start the game

2.- When the game start, the first thing, that you need to do is to steer your way through invisible shoals and sandbanks that kept appearing and disappering

3.-Do a zig-zag, to avoid all this things that you will, see on your way, to kept save your ship.

4.- Then when the shoals and sandbakns get all vanished, and you enter to the little yellow submarine, you have to defeat the Octopus

5.- To defeat this octopus, and get the treasure, you have to complete and avoid a complicated pattern of curves and loops of the tentacles of the octopus.

6.- Then the octopus will be more fast, so you have do the same, but more fast.

7.- If you do that well, you can escape the tentacles of the octopus, and go to the valued final room, the room of the treasure.

8.- Finally, you can enjoy the word "WINNER" and see the treasure, like a real one.

Hope, you can pass the game, with this instruccions ;)!

                         The Demon Headmaster:
                                          Letter for Auntie Alice

Task 1:

You are a member of SPLAT. You will be in London accompanying Dinah. Write a letter to Auntie Alice to explain:

a. Why you are going to be in London.

b. Dinah’s feelings before this final.

c. The type of organization SPLAT is.

08/04/2013

Dear Auntie Alice:

In few days, the day after tomorrow, we are going to the capital of our country, London, because Dinah, my friend that you already knew, is going to a competition, cause she won and pass, a computer game, the "Octupus Dare". I tell you this because, there have passed 4 years, until the last time that a saw you, and if I go to your city, and we dont see, or you even know that I was there, you can get sad.

And Dinah, she looks like, she thinks, that she will win, yes or yes, she have a lot of faith, that she we will win. Always she feels like its a thing of life or dead, to get his S-7 (that she needs to participate), he really want to participate...

To support her, there go all the SPLAT people. And what is a SPLAT, our group of friends, that fight them,a Society for the Protection of our Lives Against Them.

Well, hope to see you there Auntie Alice,

With love,

Your nephew

                             VoiceThread: Volunteer Vacations

Here is the link of the PowerPoint Presentation of the Volunteer Vacations, also there is the presentation recorded:
https://voicethread.com/?#e4341864

                                Volunteer Vacations Proyect

Task 1: Definitions of some words in the diferents articles of "Volunteer Vacations"

1A: Definitions:
1) Hectic: Crazy, frenetic, is like a agitated activity of thing.
2) Schedule: Is a time table, your list of things that you must can or must do
3) Hanging: Put in the air something, suspend in the air a thing.
4) Dig: Excavate in the surface, take out the ground.
5) Kneeling: Stay bending over with the articulation of the leg (middle of the leg)
6) Hauling Up: To carry something with strange
7) Pottery Shards: Pieces ceramic, of something that is broken
8) Beads: A small atractive thing, that is popular used to decorate collars.
9) Lodging: To stay is a hotel or sothing else, where you can sleep.
10) Wares: A thing that you can do to get money and merchandise.
11) Allay: Alleviate or make that something decrease its percentage.
12) Impoverished: Be bad economically, be poor
13) Pounding: Hit, shake or crash something, or with siomething strong or a little less
14) Outfitter: A group of person or a person that give/sell you clothes

1B: Complete the following chart:

I.

•  Trip: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
•  Destionation(s): Unitad States
•  Activities: Hauling up buckets of dirt, the chance to find pottery shards, turquoise, beads and other remnats of this ancient community, a tour of Mesa Verde Nation Park.

II. 

• Trip: Biosphere Expeditions
• Destionation(s): Slovakia, Azores, Honduras, Oman
• Activities: Work with scientist as they protect the Arabian loepard of Oman, the wolves of Slovakia, the whales of the Azores, and the reef of Honduras

III.

• Trip: Sierra Club
• Destionation(s): Aspen, Colorado
• Activities: With 90 service trips annually, trips will line up your family with park services to maintain trails, clean up trash and restore woodland areas, such as cleaning trails along the Appalachia. Also you can go to a Independence Pass and Contintal Divide in Colorado, a Family Fun Trail Work program in Aspen, Colorado and a multigenerational ind river range restoration proyect in Wyoming.

IV.

• Trip: Cross- Cultural Solutions
• Destionation(s): Morocco, Peru, Costa Rica, Tanzania, China, and Brazil
• Activities: Be volunteer in a orphanage, schools, and child centers. To teens of 15 to 17,  they can teach each artist how to market their wares, teach English and rebuild a community.

V.

• Trip: Global Citizens Network
• Destionation(s): Kenya, Nepal, Guatemala and Minnesota
• Activities: Build a medical clinic, constructing a roof for Tibetan refugees, weaving in Guatemala, and harvesting wild rice.

VI.

• Trip: Habitat for Humanity
• Destionation(s): Cameroon, Malaysia, Paraguay, and Romania
• Activities: Combine travel with homebuilding and rebuild homes after natural disasters. Also participate in local cultural activities

VII.

• Trip: Earthwatch
• Destionation(s): Napal, Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga, British Columbia and South'Dakota
• Activities: Study rhesus monkey feeding behavior, map coastal wetlands, help protect the Pacific grey whales, and excavate mammoths

Task 2: Imagine that two of your friends and family have decided to live a different experience and join one of these vacation programmes. Which one would you choose?

Some of the things that you may need to do are:

 A. Make a Budget

 B. Research plane tickets

 C. Decide the dates you want to leave and come back

 D. Buy luggage (list the items)

 E. Find out if you need immunization shots

 F. Decide if you will do any addtional traveling while you are there

 G. Plan for daily activities

2: I choose "Global Citizens Network", because in that vacation program, you visit another country, another culture, like Kenya, Nepal, Guatemala, Minnesota, etc...    . There you stay in a local family house; that is a good thing to know or see the situation of the people of that country. But the most important thing that you do is build things, that is also funny and make you feel good, because you are helping other.

                          Insight Vacations, Listening Activity :O

Questions:
1. What do people want when they travel?
2. What are the complications of independent travel?
3. What can you miss out without personal connections during the trip?
4. How does Select Choices work?
5. Mention the essentials offered by select choices
6. What will the personal concierge do for you?
7. Do you agree with with the slogan "independent touring made eazy". Why?
Answers:
A1. The people flexibility, when they travel. That means that they want to do what they want when they want it.
A2. The complications of independent travel, is that is too expensive, and you takes you a lot of time.
A3. If  you miss out a personal connections during the trip, you can lost to go to events, good restaurants, and local coming to city or region.
A4. Select Choices work, with the informacion of where you like to go, and stay off, and how many nights and day, you will stay in the hotel that you choice
A5. Select Choices offered you transport, premium hotels, baggage handling, tips from the hotel staff, welcome drinks, breakfast and full hosting service by an profecional tour director.
A6. The personal concierge provide commentaries, local insights, and inside  introductions, for me.
A7. I agree with the slogan " independent touing made eazy" because, you told the personal of Select Choices, what you like, and he organizes alll what you like, for, you; without  having to do that from yourself. Then the only thing that you have to do is have fun and enjoy it ;)-

                                  Talking Time: Item A to B

Focus Questions for the Text A
  1. What is the volunteering and what role does it play in America Life?
  2. What is a volunteer vacations? Describe two types of volunteer vacations?
3. Why do Americans  like votunteer vacations?
Answers:
A1. The role that play is that you volunteering work for something                                      without pay.
A2. A volunteer vacations is when you go to work voluntarily in your vacations. There are two types of volunteer vacations:
I. When you go to nacional parks, to build and repair trails and paths
II. When you go contribute to the U.S Cultural History
A3. The americans like volunteer vacations, because, while they do things, they not feel that they dont do anything or something productive in their vacations.

Focus Questions for the Text B
1. What did futurist in the 1960s believe about the effect of technology?
2. What is a time famine? Why are americans experiencing this famine?
3. What are some Americans doing to take back their time?
Answers:
A1. That with the technology we can reduce the time, in our activities with machines, and this free time, that we get, can be a problem
A2. A time famine, means that we like more time, and americans, are a example, because, with their phones, they are connect with his work, while they are fun time in another part, worring and suffering.
A3. Americans choose to buy and have less things, to work less, and with this and not pay so much (Ej: Pay more TV Channels). With this they can have more time to have fun with their family and friends.